Genesee, Colorado.
Typical home $1,078,472 (-0.0% in a year). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,990 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $20 -0%
- $1,078,493$1,078,472 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $146,975 +16%
- $931,498$1,078,472 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Genesee$5,661
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Genesee, CO fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Genesee, Jefferson County, Colorado
Genesee, in Jefferson County, had 3,610 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $186,667 a year and half less, against $110,656 across Jefferson County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Genesee is a small community in Jefferson County, in the foothills west of Denver. Nearly everyone here owns their home, and incomes run well above the county's, with very few households living in poverty. Most adults have a four-year degree, and typical home values are high.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. A good share work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are the Jefferson County school district, Colorado School of Mines and Lockheed Martin's Waterton Campus.
Things to do. Red Rocks Park and Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a park and an outdoor theatre, are a short drive away, as is Dinosaur Ridge, a museum site for fossils and tracks. The Colorado Railroad Museum is also a short drive off. Winters are cold and very snowy, with a mild, warm July, so outings tend to follow the seasons.
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- 1,598households
- 77%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 37%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 247,248 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 49°. About 81 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Evergreen weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Jefferson County School District No. R-1School district10,331FTE
- Lockheed Martin Corporation Waterton Campus (1004)Developing and producing prototypes for complete guided missiles and space vehicles5,390
- BAE System Inc. Space and Mission SystemAeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing1,893
- Lockheed Martin Corporation US CO Littleton Deer Crk Cnyn (1003)1,566
- Colorado School of MinesUniversity or college1,509
- St. Anthony HospitalGeneral hospital1,399FTE
- Terumo BCT - LakewoodBlood transfusion equipment manufacturing1,365
- Encore ElectricElectric contracting1,272
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 380 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 54,216 people in all across the county; Genesee has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- WildfireVery high
- HailVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Genesee’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Jefferson County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Genesee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Genesee$1,078,472
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Genesee listings — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Genesee43.78%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Genesee48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Genesee8
Zip codes with a Genesee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Genesee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.